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36. Following God's lead when pursuing adoption and how God's love is shown through the process. Dustin Dozier from Upstate Church Five Forks
Simply127
28 minutes 17 seconds
4 years ago
36. Following God's lead when pursuing adoption and how God's love is shown through the process. Dustin Dozier from Upstate Church Five Forks
Dustin Dozier is a husband, pastor and father to adopted children. He is the Teaching Pastor at Upstate Church Five Forks outside of Greenville, South Carolina. Dustin did not grow up in a church home and didn’t become a Christian until he was in high school after being invited to church by friends when he was a freshman.
After going on several mission trips, Dustin saw the great need to foster and adopt. God stirred in his heart the call to adopt but Dustin did not know the details of how that would look. After the earthquake in Haiti, Dustin and his wife hosted a child from Haiti and ended up adopting him and his 2 siblings. They adopted a newborn, 15 month old and two year old in a very short period of time. This wasn’t the path that Dustin envisioned when starting a family with his wife, but he learned very quickly that he needed to lean on God’s leading in his life for their family.
Dustin provides advice for the journey of adoption and also for the church in caring for the vulnerable. He discusses how sometimes the world sees Christians for what they are against, not what they are for. Christians should show others the goodness of God. Adoption and foster care are ways that show others the goodness of God.
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We want to simply tell inspiring stories of people tangibly living out James 1:27 and give people a place to learn more about caring for the vulnerable with excellence.